STUDENT

DIVERSITY
 STUDENT DIVERSITY

Learning/ Thinking Multiple Intelligences

Styles

Visual/ Spatial
Sensory Brain Verbal/Linguistic
Preferences Hemispheres
Logical-Mathematical
Bodily /
Iconic
Visual Kinesthetics
Symbolic Left Brain Musical
(Analytic)
Talkers Interpersonal
Auditory
Listeners Intrapersonal
Tactile/Kines- Right Brain
thetics (Global) Naturalistic

Existential
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 LEFT BRAIN (ANALYTIC) RIGHT BRAIN (GLOBAL)

1. Verbal 1. Visual

2. Responds to word meaning 2. Responds to the tone of voice

3. Sequential 3. Random

4. Process information linearly 4. Processes information in varied order

5. Responds to logic 5. Responds to emotions

6. Plans ahead 6. Impulsive

7. Recalls people’s names 7. Recalls people’s faces

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8. Speaks with few gestures 8. Gestures when speaking

9. Punctual 9. Less punctual

10. Prefers formal study design 10. Prefers sound/music

background while studying
11. Prefers bright lights while 11. Prefers frequent mobility while
studying studying.

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Teaching Strategies guided by Thinking/Learning Styles and Multiple
Intelligences

1. Use questions of all types to stimulate various levels of

thinking from recalling factual information to drawing
implications and making value judgments.
2. Provide general overview of material to be learned i.e.
structured overviews, advance organizers.
3. Allow sufficient time for information to be processed
and then integrate using both the left- and right-brain
hemispheres.

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4. Set clear purposes before any listening, viewing or
reading experience.
5. Warm up before the lesson development by using
brainstorming, set induction, etc.
6. Use multisensory means for both processing and
retrieving information.
7. Use a variety of review and reflection strategies to bring
closure to learning (Writing summaries, creating opinion
surveys, etc.)
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8. Use descriptive feedback rather than simply praising.

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 “
Education is not a learning of facts, but the
training of the MIND TO THINK.
-Albert Einstein-